Alfred H. Miles, ed. Women Poets of the Nineteenth Century. 1907. | | Miscellaneous Poems. II. An Echo from Willowwood | By Christina Georgina Rossetti (18301894) |
| Oh ye, all ye that walk in willowwood. TWO gazed into a pool, he gazed and she, | |
Not hand in hand, yet heart in heart, I think, | |
Pale and reluctant on the waters brink, | |
As on the brink of parting which must be. | |
Each eyed the others aspect, she and he, | 5 |
Each felt one hungering heart leap up and sink, | |
Each tasted bitterness which both must drink, | |
There on the brink of lifes dividing sea. | |
Lilies upon the surface, deep below | |
Two wistful faces craving each for each, | 10 |
Resolute and reluctant without speech: | |
A sudden ripple made the faces flow | |
One moment joined, to vanish out of reach: | |
So those hearts joined, and ah! were parted so. | | | |
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